Media Week: News International to launch iPad app for The Times and The Sunday Times
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"Executives from News International have over the past week been showing the app to media agencies, according to sources."
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Media Week: Standard creates BA sponsored mobile app
"The London Evening Standard has launched a mobile phone news service sponsored by British Airways London City service. It is available free across a series of mobile platforms, including iPhone, BlackBerry and Google Android smartphones."
NYTimes.com: The Death of the Open Web
"A kind of virtual redlining is now under way. The Webtropolis is being stratified. Even if, like most people, you still surf the Web on a desktop or laptop, you will have noticed pay walls, invitation-only clubs, subscription programs, privacy settings and other ways of creating tiers of access."
Shiny Shiny: Apple’s no-nipples policy means fashion mags are censoring their iPad editions
"'[E]dgier' fashion magazines like Dazed & Confused and Vice will have to seriously cut back on nudity in photography and fashion shoots. ... A D&C insider revealed that the mag's iPad edition has been nicknamed the Iran edition by the people putting it together."
Brand Republic: PPA Conference 2010: Publishers struggling to generate revenue from apps
"Publishers are still finding it hard to make money out of iPhone applications once Apple has taken its 40% share of ad revenues, delegates at today's PPA conference heard."
Wired.com: 26 Percent of Wired’s Mobile Traffic Comes From the iPad
"Less than three weeks after its launch, Apple’s iPad already accounts for 26 percent of the mobile devices accessing Wired.com. Overall, mobile devices account for between 2.3 percent and 3.5 percent of our traffic. For April 3 to 19, iPad users represented 0.91 percent of total site traffic."
paidContent:UK: Why iPad Won’t Silence The Newspaper Presses
Benedict Evans: "The long-term sustainability of the app model as a way to shape people’s consumption of content is questionable. The iPad has a great web browser, so users may simply transfer their existing ‘grazing’ news consumption: certainly, the pull of the link economy will be strong. The main impact of the iPad might be to erode further the position of print publications and their websites, by giving all of the web the same portability as a physical newspaper or magazine."
New York Times: Pulitzer Winner Gets Apple’s Reconsideration for iPhone
"After Mr. Fiore received the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning — and after he mentioned his app’s rejection in an article published on niemanlab.org on Thursday — he was encouraged by Apple to resubmit it. Mr. Fiore did so on Friday morning and is awaiting a response."
NPR: Is Apple Acting Like An Old-Time, Broadcast Network?
" Could a news organization run into problems with Apple if they were publishing unpopular stories about a political topic? Imagine if The New York Times wanted to publish the Pentagon Papers on its iPhone and iPad apps. Would Apple stand in the way of controversial reporting if the political winds were blowing against it?"
CJR: It’s Time for the Press to Push Back Against Apple
"The iPad is the most exciting opportunity for the media in many years. But if the press is ceding gatekeeper status, even if it’s only nominally, over its speech, then it is making a dangerous mistake. Unless Apple explicitly gives the press complete control over its ability to publish what it sees fit, the news media needs to yank its apps in protest."
Faster Forward: Apple rejects Pulitzer winner’s iPhone app because it ‘ridicules public figures’
"This escapade raises an interesting question, one that media critic and tech writer Dan Gillmor has been asking for a while: Now that many news organizations use iPhone applications to publish their work, can Apple evict those programs if it doesn't like their content? What about, say, The Post's own iPhone app, which presents the often-scornful work of such colleagues as Dana Milbank and Tom Toles?"
Nieman Journalism Lab: Mark Fiore can win a Pulitzer Prize, but he can’t get his iPhone cartoon app past Apple’s satire police
"In December, Apple rejected [cartoonist Mark Fiore] iPhone app, NewsToons, because, as Apple put it, his satire “ridicules public figures,” a violation of the iPhone Developer Program License Agreement, which bars any apps whose content in 'Apple’s reasonable judgement may be found objectionable, for example, materials that may be considered obscene, pornographic, or defamatory.'"
paidContent:UK: Paperboy Mobile App Bridges Print-Online Newspaper Gap
"iPhone app Paperboy recognises pictures users snap of article pages, corresponds them to their online equivalents and then lets readers share or read online."
Magazine Publishers of America: Mapps: Magazine App Directory
"Mapps is the definitive guide to mobile applications produced by magazine/media companies."